Disclaimer: Look I'm new at this, sorry I didn't put it on the first chapter. Okay all the characters from Buffy and Angel are not mine, they are an invention of Joss Whedons imagination, I'm just borrowing them.
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By the way does anyone know what Angels hotel is called, I'm kind of getting bored of calling in 'Angels Hotel'
It was dawn before Buffy walked into Angel's hotel and straight up to her and Dawns room. Buffy had cried all the way home, but made sure she looked alright before she entered the hotel. She was in a very tired daze but a voice snapped her out of it as she entered her room.
"Where have you been?! I was worried sick."
"I went slaying, why aren't you asleep?"
"Don't you dare change the subject, you can't just storm off with out saying everything, and then not return until dawn."
"Sorry, I ran into Clem and forgot about the time."
"You saw Clem, how is he?" Dawn seemed to have forgotten she was mad, and Buffy was amazed she hadn't jumped of the bed in excitement.
"Yeah I saw Clem, he said he would come around today."
"Cool,"
Buffy took off her shoes and jacket and lay down on her bed.
"So you're gonna go to bed now that everyone is getting up,"
"Dawn did you sleep at all last night?"
"No, I was worried sick,"
"Then you should go to sleep now as well."
They both lay in silence until the sun was fully in the sky.
"Well Buffy I don't know about you, but I'm not going to get any sleep right now so I'm going to get up."
"I think I will as well."
Both girls got up and half heartedly made their beds.
"Dawn."
"Yeah"
"How long do you want to stay here."
"Pardon"
"Well, do you want to move back to L.A, cause then we should look for a place. Or we could go to Cleveland and do more hellmouth watching."
"I don't know, won't you have to talk to Giles?"
"Yeah but really it's more our decision."
"Well I always liked L.A."
"Okay just keep it in mind, I'm going to go have a shower."
"See you downstairs."
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"Hi Wood,"
"Hey Faith, are we ready to go?"
"Yeah Giles borrowed Angel's car, he's waiting out front."
"Lead the way."
Faith and Wood dodged nurses and doctors until they stood in front of a black convertible. Wood sat down in the front seat next to Giles.
"Feeling better?"
"Much, so just where are we going."
"We're staying at Angel's hotel until we decide what to do."
They didn't say anything else on the trip to the hotel.
After Giles had parked the car in a small covered area outside the hotel. They walked inside to meet Angel who was just leaving his old office carrying a glass of blood.
"Hi, you must be Wood."
"Yeah that's me," Wood studied Angel as they shook hands. Another vampire, my god why doesn't Buffy work with normal people. "So, where is everyone?"
Faith had seen the look in Woods eyes and thought it would be good to take his attention off the vampire. "The AI team is at Wolfram and Hart working, the younger slayers are at Wolfram and Hart training, and I think everyone else has gone shopping."
"Speaking of Wolfram and Hart I better get down there."
"Would I be able to catch a ride with you? I need to do some research."
Angel and Giles walked out to Angel's car.
Still not to impressed by the vampire situation Wood turned to Faith. "So this Angel guy is a vampire as well."
"Yeah, but don't worry he's good, he has a soul as well."
"Why do you people insist on working with vampires?"
"Hey, it's mainly Buffy who works with them, anyway the only ones she ever works with are good, it's not like they would turn around and kill you if they had the chance."
"But why? They may be good now but they did kill people at some point in time. A soul doesn't make everything they did okay, it doesn't bring all the people they killed back."
"What is your problem? I get you didn't like Spike, but what did Angel ever do to you."
"It isn't what he did to me, it's what he did to others."
"Hey Wood, I take it your feeling better," Faith and Wood looked up to see Xander coming down the stairs.
"Great thanks,"
Xander took a deep breath after hearing his tone, he could tell they other two had been having a fight and didn't think he wanted to get involved. But at the same time he knew that he had to break it up or else someone could get hurt.
"So what were you two thinking of getting up to?"
"Well I was hoping to join up with some of the others and go shopping, Wood on the other hand thinks it would be fun to bad mouth Angel all day."
Oh great.
"Look I was just wondering why a slayer would insist on working with vampires."
"She never insisted on it, they were the only ones strong enough to be any help in a battle."
"My mother would never get help from a vampire,"
"You're mother was killed by one."
Xander decided that this would be a good time to break this up.
"Faith, I was just going to meet willow and Dawn for lunch, do you want to come?"
"Yeah sure," with one last glare at Wood Faith stomped out of the room.
"See you later," Xander turned and followed Faith out the door.
Wood sighed, Damn I was actually getting somewhere with her. Positioning himself on the couch he began to flip through the paper.
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Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Dawn got home around dusk after dropping the shopping bags in their rooms they headed back down to the foyer. As they got there the door opened and Clem's head appeared around the frame.
"Clem!" Dawn ran and threw her arms around the demon who hugged her back.
Xander turned to Buffy and whispered "what is he doing here?"
"I invited him."
"Why?"
"Well I saw him when I was out last night and figured he might as well come around."
Xander and Willow decided they didn't feel like talking to one of Spikes old friends so they went into the kitchen to start preparing dinner. Buffy watched as Dawn and Clem seemed to get into a deep conversation, she walked out the back door and sat down on the stairs watching the stars. She remembered her last night with Spike, how she had gone down just after having looked at the stars. She began to worry about him, what if he wasn't up there, what if he had been sent to an eternity of torment in hell.
After about 20 minutes Buffy heard the door open and felt a demonic presence, she looked up to see Clem coming to sit beside her.
"You okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine."
"It's just, you ran off kind of quickly last night."
"Sorry 'bout that."
They sat in silence for a while watching the wind blow against the trees and the stars shining. Finally Clem broke the silence.
"So how did it happen?"
"Pardon?"
"How did he die?"
Buffy froze she felt herself go cold, she had no intention of ever telling the story again, but that wouldn't be fair, Clem was Spikes friend.
"Well Angel came to Sunnydale with this amulet, he said it had to be worn by a soul being that was more than a human, the being had to be a champion. I got Spike to wear it."
"But I don't think Spike was a champion."
"Well he is now, anyway we were down in the hell mouth and it started throwing out sparks of light, all the uber-vamps in the hall died. The ceiling started to fall in, the rest of us left but he said he had to stay back to finish it."
Buffy finished, she realised she had given Clem an even shorted version of the story then Angel. Buffy got up and walked away from Clem, she stood with her back to him remembering the last moments in the hell mouth with Spike. Clem could see tears in the corners of her eyes, he had never really understood what her feelings were towards the vampire, even though he knew well that Spike had loved her. Deciding that Buffy wanted to be alone he walked back inside to Dawn.
Angel saw Clem come in and thought that it would be a good time to make up with Buffy after the other night. He walked outside and stood a few feet away watching Buffy. Eventually he thought it best to say something.
"Buffy, you know last night."
"Angel can I just be alone now?"
"Yeah but don't want you to be mad at me."
"I'm no mad with you I just need to think."
They both stood in silence for a while. Suddenly Angel felt a rush go through him, they was a force of energy near by, a strong force at that and it seemed angry.
"Buffy did you feel that?"
"Feel what?"
"Some kind of force, it seemed strong."
Suddenly Angel felt himself turn and go inside, he couldn't understand how this was happening. His brain told him to go back to Buffy, but his feet seemed to insist that going inside was best, he allowed himself to be dragged.
Buffy heard to door open and close behind her, good he's finally gone, she heard a snap and her head popped up. Looking in the direction of the noise, she saw a dark figure standing under a tree, he had platinum blonde hair, as he looked up his blue eyes met hers.
"Spike?"
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Spike walked into what he believed was the common building alone after Jess had conducted a two hour tour of Olympus. They each had their own towers and Spike got the feeling it was normal for the older gods to just teleport to see each other. Though he liked the landscaping Spike wasn't to impressed by Hermes and Pandora, Hermes had spent the entire tour jumping around to stay in step with Spike, and Spike found he very much reminded him of Andrew, minus the science fiction obsession. Pandora had continued to give Spike those looks, at one point he though that she was feeling sorry for him, but that didn't make any sense.
"Ah here you are, I trust Jess gave you a good tour."
"Yeah, yeah she did. Excuse me for asking, but just why am I here?"
"You are here to learn, as all of us have done at some point in time."
Spike made a small 'oh' sound and then watched as the tall man walked over to pick up a large trident, it had a silver top with a green handle and the bottom of it was decorated by silver lion heads. Zeus handed the trident to Spike, who felt a bolt a electricity pass through him as soon as he touch it.
"Bloody hell, now I know how Buffy felt when she picked up the scythe."
"Well actually the scythe wasn't nearly as strong as that, but yes it would have had a similar affect."
"So does everyone up here have a nice looking trident?"
"No just you, the rest of them have wands, except of corse Hermes who has flying shoes."
"And what about you?"
"Myself and Hera have powers which do not need any support."
"So we have powers. Just what would mine be?"
"We will discuss that later, but for now you must contact your slayer."
"You're gonna send me to talk to Buffy?" Spike was in slight shock, he thought he would never be able to see her again.
"Yes, Hera is setting up now."
"How's it gonna work, am I gonna be a voice in her head, cause that would be really annoying for her."
Zeus gave a low chuckle "No, no, nothing like that, we're just going to teleport you down for ten minutes and then back up again."
"So, why does Hera have to set up?"
"Because we will need to teleport as you don't know how yet."
"Well why don't you just teach me?"
"Because though I believe it would be very easy to teach you to teleport around here, but as we have to go into another dimension you would have to be a little bit older."
"A hundred and fifty ain't old enough."
"I mean as a god."
"Oh,"
"We had best be going now."
Zeus led Spike down a hallway into a small room, it was lit by candle light and there was a pool of water in the middle that was about 2 inches deep. Hera looked up and smiled at Spike as she finished lighting the last candle.
"Now Spike I'm going to start chanting, when the water turns purple you have to walk into in, it will pass you on to your slayer. Now while you're down there you can't let anyone but the slayer see you, I will call you back in about ten minutes, ready."
Spike nodded, Hera started chanting in a language the Spike didn't recognise, it sounded a lot like ancient Greek, but Spike knew Greek and that wasn't it. The water began to bubble it first turned red, then green, then blue, slowly it started to calm down and as the bubbling stopped it turned a definite dark purple. Slowly Spike walked into the water, as soon as he reached the centre he suddenly felt very heavy and fell to his knees.
Looking down Spike realised that he was no longer in the pool of water, he had actually fallen onto soft grass. Spike could hear voices, lots of voices they were inside his head, they weren't telling him anything, they were just thoughts, other people thoughts.
"Bloody hell, I can read minds." Wanting them to stop Spike wondered if there was some type of off switch, as soon as he had thought it, they stopped. "Much better."
Looking around he saw a large building and realized he was standing in someone's backyard. Then he sensed her, looking around a tree he could see her standing there God she's beautiful she was crying, Spike was about to go out a comfort her when he noticed the poof standing a few feet behind her. Angel was just standing there watching her, Spike felt a bolt of anger wash over him. Suddenly Angel's head popped up and he looked around.
"Buffy, did you feel that?"
"Feel what?" Buffy's voice was dull and lifeless, it reminded Spike of when her friends had just pulled her out of heaven.
"Some kind of force, it seemed strong."
Oh, well you're probably sensing me and I would suggest you go inside before I blow your head off.
Without any warning Angel turned and Walked inside.
Well that was amazingly easy.
Slowly Spike walked forward from behind the tree, buffy was still sanding there, she didn't seem to sense him which she always use to. Spike heard a cracking noise, looking down he realised he had accidentally stepped on a twig. As he lifted his head again his eyes met Buffy's, her eyes were wide with both fear and amazement.
"Spike."
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A/N
I was wondering how many people would have something against me killing Kennedy off, no offence to any of her fans but I really hate her.
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